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Assult
When a person physically or mentally
harms someone else.
Placing someone in fear without
any physical contact.
Battery
When a person seriously
injures someone else.
If physical contact occurs, as with a weapon or foot.
Burglary
When a person breaks into another
person's property and takes something.
When a person breaks into a building
and plans to do something illegal inside.
Embezzlement
When a person steals large amounts of money
and claims it as something else.
Stealing large amounts of money that has
been entrusted in your care.
Treason
Betraying your country for your own benefit.
Betrayal of one's country by heloing its
enemies or by making war agaisnt it.
Terrorism
Threatening a country to get something you
want.
When people or groups of people use,
or say they wil use, violence in order to
get what they want from the government
or society.
9/11
Probable
Cause
a reasion to believe someone is involved in a
crime.
A good reason to believe that a suspect
has been involved in a crime.
Warrant
Paper documenting the police's right to arrest,
search, or seize.
Legal paper, issued by a court, giving police
permission to make an arrest, seizure, or
search.
Bail
Money paid to get out of jail before sentancing.
Money that a defendant gives the court as a
kind of promise that he or she will return for
the trial.
Indictment
Charge agaisnt the defendant.
Formal chargte agaisnt the accused.
(refuse to indict)
Barry Bonds' indictment
Plea
Bargaining
Agreeing to give the accused something
they want in order to get something
that you want.
Agreeing to plead guilty in exchange for a
lesser charge or a lighter sentance.
Arraignment
Court hearing
A court hearing in which the defendant is
formally charged with a crime and enters
a plea of guilty, not guilty, or no contest.
Chris Brown's arraignment
Parole
When a person in jail is let go but is still
watched.
Letting an inmate go free to serve the rest of his or her sentence outside the prison.
Meeting with your parole officer
Delinquent
Child who committed a crime.
A juvenile who is found guilty of a crime.
JuvenileDelinquent.jpg Juvenile Delinquent image by nicolekcnw
Status
Offender
Repeating offender
Youth who is found guilty of one of these acts
(running away, disobedience or truency).
Running away from home
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harms someone else.
any physical contact.
injures someone else.
person's property and takes something.
and plans to do something illegal inside.
and claims it as something else.
been entrusted in your care.
enemies or by making war agaisnt it.
want.
or say they wil use, violence in order to
get what they want from the government
or society.
Cause
crime.
has been involved in a crime.
search, or seize.
permission to make an arrest, seizure, or
search.
kind of promise that he or she will return for
the trial.
(refuse to indict)
Bargaining
they want in order to get something
that you want.
lesser charge or a lighter sentance.
formally charged with a crime and enters
a plea of guilty, not guilty, or no contest.
watched.
Offender
(running away, disobedience or truency).
Running away from home